A member of Wilmington's Touch Money Gang on Friday was sentenced to 25 years in prison for a May 2014 fatal shooting in Wilmington.

Tymere Righter, 22, apologized to the court and the family of those affected before Superior Court Judge William C. Carpenter Jr. handed down his sentence. Earlier this year, Righter pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, possession of a firearm by a person prohibited and gang participation for the fatal shooting of Dewayne Brown.

"I'd like to apologize," Righter told the court. "I'd like to do what I have to do in prison to be a better person."

Brown was shot in the head as he sat in a parked car near East 10th and North Spruce streets. Deputy Attorney General John Downs advocated for the 25-year sentence noting Righter had been in and out of prison for years with his "criminal conduct escalating" to the shooting.

Downs said the time for apologies had passed.

"The state's position is it is too little, too late," Downs said. "Remorse came after conviction."

Jason Antoine, Righter's defense attorney, advocated for the minimum of 15 years. He said Righter was shot and robbed when he was 15 years old, leading him to "always look over his shoulder."

He said Brown had threatened Righter for selling drugs on his territory.

By the time he turned 21 years old, Righter had been arrested 16 times on 47 charges and convicted 11 times, Carpenter said.

"That is difficult to accomplish ..., " Carpenter said. "All I'm saying is you didn't have the best situation growing up, but you took someone's life."

Righter is the second person sentenced in the killing.

Raymire Briscoe, 17, pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to 15 years in prison earlier this year. He was 14 when the crime was committed.

Both Righter and Briscoe were part of a sweeping, 13-person indictment involving 91 charges including murder, robbery and conspiracy.

The group was known as the Touch Money Gang — and one of several groups of primarily young men violently feuding with each other across the city, according to an investigation into Wilmington's teen violence published by The News Journal earlier this month.

Touch Money's crimes included six killings, five non-fatal shootings and a bank robbery.

"The level of violence and brazenness alleged to have been exhibited by TMG members is shocking," Attorney General Matt Denn said in 2015 when the men were indicted. "The number of shots being fired and the indiscriminate nature of the shootings are alarming."

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Wilmington and state officials announce the indictment of 13 Touch Money Gang members on 91 charges including murder, robbery, conspiracy and weapons charges.

Several have pleaded guilty to various crimes.

Kadir McCoy — also known as "D-Rose" — pleaded guilty to the second-degree murders of 18-year-old William Rollins Jr. and 20-year-old Devon Lindsay. Both killings occurred less than a week apart in January 2015. He was also involved in the robbery of a WSFS Bank branch. He was sentenced to 35 years in prison.

Daymere Wisher, 18, pleaded guilty in February to the second-degree murder of 32-year-old Jason Turner on June 21, 2014, as well as manslaughter in the death of Ioannis Kostikidis, 53, a security guard at the American Beauty School, during a robbery attempt in 2013. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison.

John Brisco received two life-in-prison sentences for his part in the shooting death of 18-year-old William Rollins Jr. in 2015 and the killing of Kostikidis two years earlier. Brisco is the only defendant who has proceeded to trial so far.

Brisco had been charged with killing a third person, 20-year-old Devon Lindsey, but the jury found him not guilty of that killing.

Jaymere White, 19, received five years in prison for gang participation, first-degree assault, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony and second-degree robbery.

Aquantay Garner, 21, will spend three years in prison gang participation, second-degree assault, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony and first-degree reckless endangering.